{"id":19970,"date":"2022-10-30T21:24:04","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T01:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=19970"},"modified":"2022-10-31T11:21:44","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T15:21:44","slug":"a-prayer-for-the-crown-shy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/a-prayer-for-the-crown-shy\/","title":{"rendered":"A Prayer for the Crown-Shy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;The point of a peb exchange is to acknowledge someone&#8217;s labor and thank them for what they bring to the community. They didn&#8217;t give you thirty-eight pebs because they want you to go out and spend them. They gave you thirty-eight pebs because your work is as important as anybody else&#8217;s. It means they see you as a person.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong> A Prayer for the Crown-Shy<\/strong> by Becky Chambers, published in 2022<\/p>\n<p>Dex is returning to civilization. They are accompanied by Mosscap, the robot they met in the forest. Mosscap has a question for humans: what do you need? When they get to a town called Stump, the humans there answer Mosscap&#8217;s question by saying various chores they could use a hand with.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 2nd <strong>Monk and Robot<\/strong> novella, a sequel to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2021\/08\/a-psalm-for-the-wild-built\/\"><strong>A Psalm for the Wild-Built<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s about humans who live in harmony with the world, and a robot with boundless curiosity. It&#8217;s about what people need from life.<\/p>\n<p>I like the concept of the ramble, where you spend a month in neighbouring areas to see how they do things.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve read 7 books by Chambers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{5\/5} &#8220;The point of a peb exchange is to acknowledge someone&#8217;s labor and thank them for what they bring to the community. They didn&#8217;t give you thirty-eight pebs because they want you to go out and spend them. They gave you thirty-eight pebs because your work is as important as anybody else&#8217;s. It means they [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,5,8,44],"class_list":["post-19970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-book","tag-review","tag-science-fiction","tag-short-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19970"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19974,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19970\/revisions\/19974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}